PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUISM. Volume I: An Ontology of Manifestness and Stabilisation

This volume presents Philosophy of Evoluism — Volume I, a foundational philosophical monograph developing a meta-ontological framework for the analysis of reality, manifestation, and stability. The work introduces Evoluism as a non-reductive, non-foundational ontological framework that distinguishes reality as a condition of possibility from worlds as regimes of manifestation, and existence from manifestness. The central aim of the volume is not to propose a new ontology of entities, processes, or structures, but to articulate a disciplined framework for distinguishing ontological regimes—that is, ways in which differences become distinguishable, stabilised, and accessible for coordination, explanation, and description. Evoluism rejects the identification of reality with what is observable, measurable, or structurally articulated, and instead treats manifestness as a regime-dependent ontological mode rather than a universal feature of existence. A key contribution of the volume is the systematic distinction between: elements of the world (objects, processes, structures), regimes of manifestation (modes of stabilization and coordination), and conditions of possibility (reality), which are not treated as objects, processes, or productive grounds. Within this framework, the parameter ψ (psi) is introduced as a philosophical navigational parameter, not as a measurable quantity or causal factor. ψ serves to distinguish modes and degrees of manifestation, stability, and internal coordination within worlds, while remaining strictly non-ontological in status. The volume explicitly guards against the ontologization of ψ, indices, models, or explanatory frameworks. The book critically engages with major ontological traditions—including process philosophy, physicalism, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, panpsychism, structural realism, and speculative realism—not by synthesizing them, but by clarifying the limits of their applicability through regime-based analysis. These comparisons suggest that many classical ontological disputes arise from category errors involving the conflation of conditions, regimes, and elements. Volume I establishes the conceptual foundations required for subsequent analytical and empirical work. It does not offer causal explanations, predictive models, or normative programs. Instead, it provides a disciplined philosophical framework for analyzing how forms become manifest and stabilized, and where the limits of ontological explanation lie. The second volume applies this framework to scientific, technological, cognitive, and institutional domains without revising the ontological constraints developed here. This work is intended for researchers in philosophy, meta-ontology, philosophy of science, and interdisciplinary theory who are concerned with the limits of explanation, the status of models and structures, and the conditions under which ontological claims are meaningful. Related work: PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUISM. Volume II: Regimes of Analysis and Navigational Parametershttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18946107